{"id":1952,"date":"2010-07-22T10:12:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T15:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2011-02-25T10:37:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T15:37:24","slug":"spongeware-candle-holder-c-1870","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1952","title":{"rendered":"Spongeware candle holder, c.1870"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the stem and base of a 19th century metal candle stick became damaged, someone took the surviving bowl and attached it to a simple ceramic pearlware dish with sponged &#8220;flow blue&#8221; decoration. The result of that marriage is this more practical candle holder, which measures 5-7\/8&#8243; in diameter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1857.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1953\" title=\"IMG_1857\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1857.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1857.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1857-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The metal bowl was attached to the dish using a short screw and early butterfly nut.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7234.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5468\" title=\"IMG_7234\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7234.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7234-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Due to the nut&#8217;s protrusion through the bottom, the candle holder does not sit well on a surface and makes for a less than ideal (and somewhat dangerous) candle holder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1858.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1954\" title=\"IMG_1858\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1858.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1858.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1858-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the stem and base of a 19th century metal candle stick became damaged, someone took the surviving bowl and attached it to a simple ceramic pearlware dish with sponged &#8220;flow blue&#8221; decoration. The result of that marriage is this more practical candle holder, which measures 5-7\/8&#8243; in diameter. The metal bowl was attached to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[15,19,89],"class_list":["post-1952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-candle-holder","tag-blue-white","tag-english","tag-pearlware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3460,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions\/3460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}